My sweet grandpa

Sunday morning my grandmother called me early. I knew when I saw her name on my phone something wasn't right. She said that grandpa had fell and she thought he had a stroke. My grandparents are 90!!!! I hurried and called mom and she rushed down there along with my Aunt. He was in bed and had apparently had a stoke and couldn't get up. They talked him into going to the hospital.
We were all afraid it was something he suffered from years ago.....a bursted blood vessel in his brain. After a cat scan they confirmed no bleeding but did confirm a stroke.
He is stable and doing ok. The main problem is his speech. His brain is telling him to say one thing but something different comes out. You just have to know my grandpa. He is probably one of the funniest people I know. When I walked in to see him I clearly understood him say "Hey". He also asked how Ava was. He was obviously telling jokes because he would say something then die out laughing. I just laughed with him. LOL
Today we are hoping for major progress and the swelling to go down!!
Prayers would be appreciated!!!

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

It all started Wednesday. I worked and my boss let us go early. My brother came in and was at moms so we had dinner over there and spent some time together. Thanksgiving we spent the afternoon with my moms family. We went to my Uncle Mitchells house. His house is amazing. He built this insanely huge house on the bluff. I am talking he did pretty much the whole thing himself which amazes me. Anyways, we had a Great dinner and spent a wonderful evening all together.

Black Friday:

Thursday night I went home and packed up some stuff then went to moms house. I put Ava to bed at their house and I laid down on their couch for a couple hours. Me and mom left her house at 12:30 and picked up my Aunt. We got to Old Navy at 1:30. It was crazy!!!!! The line to check out was like 2 hours long so I just skipped out on that one. I did some other shopping then got in line at Belks at 3:00. They opened at 4am and was giving out 250 gift cards. It was surprisingly fun. I dressed really warm and I had my coffee in hand. I guess the adrenaline was pumping or something because I enjoyed it. My gift card was only $5 but oh well. LOL

I found a few good deals. We were done shopping at 6:30 and had a wonderful breakfast at the Blue Plate Cafe. I really felt the affects when I got home though. Wow, I felt rough. My wonderful mom let me sleep a couple hours. I need to add I was already sick with a sore throat. I am sure that cold rain didn't help but Oh well sometimes I do stupid things and pay for them later.

OH and I got online at Old Navy when I got home and got all the things I wanted :) Yeah!!!!

A day of new things

I am proud to say Adam is finally done with this outage. It was a long month and a half! He is off this week and I am so thankful. We have so much to do.

You know I had posted a couple weeks ago about our stove and TV not working. Well we finally deemed them "broke". We made a trip to Wal-Mart and Home Depot yesterday. We got a new stove that was on sale. I am talking we bought this stove for not much more than the part cost. Crazy! We also bought a new TV. Its so nice to watch a large TV again. We are SO spoiled!!!!!!
I had racked my brain over Black Friday sales, and I was just like I am not standing in line fighting over a TV I may or may not get. I will pay a little more and get it now!!!
Don't get me wrong...I will be out early shopping Friday. Its an addiction!!

I am putting up my Christmas Tree today...hopefully!!! Sorry Drea! LOL

Christmas pictures 2010

Check out our Christmas pictures for this year! I was pleased, as always!!!

Go to http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/store.aspx?p=24646

Type in Estes next to the name and the password is nestes.

Let me know what you think.

20 Months

My baby is 20 months today! She didn't feel good yesterday but today she seems to be feeling good! This girl is hilarious!!! She loves to laugh and play. Her new thing is to hold something in front of her face when she is in trouble. Its like if she doesn't see me maybe I don't see her being bad. LOL The other day she was hiding behind my sheer curtains. She was really incognito!

My stove and TV are still broke! I am about ready to hit up the after Thanksgiving sales and surprise Adam with a 55" flat screen! I love this TV we have, but its trying my patience.

One of those days!

"Look mom I found a shell or something"

random pictures from the park.

We all have them from time to time! Right?

It all started Tuesday night. I didn't go to church....yes shame on me! Ava woke up from her afternoon nap late, and I still had to give her a bath and cook supper, etc. I just stayed home. I decided I am going to rent a movie off Directtv. I NEVER watch movies anymore. I just don't take the time. So I rent it and I get about an hour into it and my TV goes black. A sign from God? Maybe. I guess I should have went to church. :)

The lamp was burnt out. We have one ordered and on the way!

Wednesday we get up and Ava just doesn't understand why I won't turn on the TV. Yes this made me realize we watch wayyyy to much TV. I feel guilty sometimes but she really does learn a lot through these shows, and not to mention I get SO much done! Make a long story short we get through the day. I get my Lasagna made for supper and in the oven. My oven is stuck on 215 and won't get any hotter. It would be ok if it was for us, but I was cooking supper for somebody else. I already had my apple cut up for apple dumplings too. Thankfully she just turned her oven on and I just took my food to her house to finish cooking. So hopefully Adam can fix it, and it will be simple.

Sorry the pictures are random and having nothing to do with my post. We went to the park Tuesday. It was sooo nice outside.

I despise the Time Change!

I am all about that extra hour of sleep, but that is the only good thing about it. I can't stand it being so sunny and bright at 6am. Yeah, and my little girl thinks its 8am. So thanks Time change. I feel like its 11 or 12 and its only 8 something. I also can't stand it being dark at 4:30. I feel like going to bed at 6pm.
Ok, so that was such a positive post for you on a Monday!

Christmas Pictures

Tuesday turned out to be gorgeous.....no rain like I was afraid of. We had some of them done on Monte Sano Mountain and some downtown. Ava was in a solemn mood of all days!!! I hope Allison got some smiles in there. I have to brag on Adam. He hates pictures, but he didn't complain at all. He wasn't a fan of the shirt I bought him to wear. He had some comments about that, but he wore it like a sport. I also informed him he would probably wear it to the Christmas play in December :)
I thought about our Christmas pictures last year. Ava was around 9 months old and now she is almost 20 months. She looks so different to me!
I am anxious to go see the pictures when they are ready!!

Halloween 2010

Me (a Gypsy) and a ladybug

Ava with her head on the floor

Ava in the bottom right having a melt down

We had a good Halloween weekend! Friday I started it with a long shopping day with a good friend of mine. I was trying to find matching outfits for our Christmas pictures tomorrow. Wow, that was a stressful job. I already had Ava's but needed ours and a few things for her. Ok, that had nothing to do with Halloween but oh well.

Saturday afternoon we dressed up and went trick or treating!!!!!! It was so much fun this year. Ava was able to enjoy it. We always stop by our preacher's house with a bunch of the kids from church,and take pictures. For some reason Ava had a meltdown during pictures. Then We loaded up on a flat bed with hay and went to a local neighborhood. It was so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Afterwards we went to a fall festival. A lady from church has it every year at her house. They have great food, a bonfire, hayrides, and candy. If you can't tell by the pictures she is a ladybug. Oh and for the record she got tons of candy which I am enjoying..LOL

I know I am mean but I don't want her eating all that. I give her a piece here and there.

I dressed up too!!!! I was a last minute Gypsy! I love dressing up and my freinds told me that day they were dressing up so I was soooo going to figure me out something.